In case you’d missed it or it wasn’t clear, Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for opposition firm Fusion GPS, the folks who hired Christopher Steele to come up with his infamous Trump dossier. Kind of cozy, don’t you think?

Salem radio host Hugh Hewitt had a suggestion for the House GOP that would keep them from faceplanting during such important testimony: hire a lawyer, preferably Blind Sheik prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, to ask the questions. (Just FYI: “Mr. Simpson” is Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.)

What would really be useful is if all the @HouseGOP yielded their time to the chair and the chair hired a lawyer who could conduct a sane, thorough, revealing, respectful inquiry of Mr. Ohr, at the end of which we’d have a timeline of his and his wife’s and Mr. Simpson’s https://t.co/cHdvUbewgo

interactions with Mr. Steele and with various senior members of Bureau and Department. This would require @HouseGOP to give up what they perceive are opportunities to shine but which in fact turn into faceplants. How about advocating for this approach?

In fact, just hired @AndrewCMcCarthy as special counsel for the hearing and turn the proceedings over to him. I don’t think objecting/nterrupting Ds would greatly distract and definitely not upset the prosecutor of the Blind Sheik. He’s very familiar w/ DOJ/Bureau/the matter

This is exactly what Senate Judiciary members–Dems and GOPers–should do at Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Skip the 10 minute preening before TV cameras and yield their time to their most knowledgeable colleagues –or better, staff counsel–for sustained inquiry on both sides. https://t.co/yA0KhJVpcu

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